Members of the list may be interested in providing comments on this draft.
-----Original Message----- From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Cynthia Hodgson Sent: 06 February 2012 16:00 To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: NISO and NFAIS Issue Draft for Public Comment of Recommended Practice on Supplemental Materials for Journal Articles The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15-201x) for public comment ending on February 29, 2012. Although supplemental materials are increasingly being added to journal articles, there is no recognized set of practices to guide in the selection, delivery, discovery, or preservation of these materials. To address this gap, NISO and NFAIS jointly sponsored a working group to establish best practices that would provide guidance to publishers and authors for management of supplemental materials and would solve related problems for librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators. The Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. The draft currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the Business Working Group. The Supplemental Materials project has two groups working in tandem: one to address business practices and one to focus on technical issues. The draft currently available for comment includes the recommendations from the Business Working Group across a wide spectrum of processes from selecting and editing supplemental material to hosting, referencing, metadata, and preservation. Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices is available for download from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/supplemental.. Publishers, authors, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, and repository administrators are all encouraged to review and comment on this draft. Cynthia Hodgson Technical Editor / Consultant National Information Standards Organization hodgso...@verizon.net 301-654-2512
